Welcome back to Top Startups! Thereβs a hiring freeze across Big Tech, but there are many well-funded startups with lean teams that are still actively hiring.
Here are my favorites for this week. Any of these catch your eye, let me know and I can intro you π:
Opaque | Analytics | πΈ $9.5M Seed from Intel Capital | 14 employees π€
What they do: Help companies share and analyze confidential data while maintaining privacy
What I like: Already working with some of the largest banks in North America to fight money laundering by sharing confidential data securely and privately; stellar founding team incl. co-founder and former CEO of Databricks, MIT and Berkeley alums with computer systems, security and AI backgrounds
Temporal | Developer Tool | πΈ $100M Series B from Sequoia, $1.5B valuation | 80 employees π€
What they do: Building simple, scalable open source way to write and run reliable cloud applications
What I like: Beloved by engineers at Coinbase, Netflix, Stripe, Snapchat, Doordash; if youβve been inside a growing tech company, youβve seen a lot of eng time spent on code reliability; Temporal is focused on blasting away this plumbing work so eng can focus on coding new features
Retool | SaaS | πΈ $20M Series C from Sequoia, YC, $1.9B valuation | 200 employees π€
What they do: Building the fastest way to make internal applications with no-code
What I like: At $1.9B valuation, they are one of the few undervalued startups today with mid 8-figures in revenue and cash-flow positive; CEO deliberately practices lean fundraising to preserve upside for employees; product quality also top-tier
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-Linda